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North Carolinians Googled what? Here are the top 2022 searches in the Triangle and the state.

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In 2022, North Carolinians sought out entertainment close to home, pondered career moves, worked on their relationships, and considered adding new skills — like Braille and Cherokee language — to their personal toolkits.

That's according to Google's Local Year in Search 2022 results tailored for the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. area. Curious what folks were Googling across the country? Check out the national-wide results here.

These local results were shared by GBW Strategies, a public relations firm contracted by Google.

A few highlights:

  • 🎭 the Raleigh-Durham area was the only place in the U.S. with comedy shows as its top trending "near me" search
  • 🦐 the Raleigh-Durham area’s top trending animal was a rainbow mantis shrimp

Here's the full list for the Triangle and North Carolina:

Top "near me" searches in the Triangle

  • Comedy shows near me
  • 4th of July events near me
  • Asian restaurant near me
  • Cheapest gas near me
  • At home COVID test near me
  • Live music near me
  • Pilates near me
  • Food pantry near me
  • Gas prices near me
  • Shooting range near me

According to Google, "change and curiosity" were standout themes in this year's results. Here’s what North Carolinians searched for on that theme.

How to become [career]

  • Medication aide
  • QA tester
  • Criminal psychologist
  • Real estate attorney
  • Driving instructor
  • Cloud engineer
  • Nuclear medicine technologist
  • Officer in the Air Force
  • IT specialist
  • Beekeeper

How to move to

  • Portugal

How to be

  • Frugal
  • A great salesman
  • More environmentally friendly
  • Good at shell shockers
  • Content being single
  • Fashion designer in bitlife
  • Pescatarian
  • Better lover
  • More funny
  • Better boyfriend

How to learn

  • Cherokee
  • Python for free
  • Braille
  • Cherokee language
  • Data analytics
  • Empathy
  • Tagalog
  • German fast
  • To like dancing
  • Chinese fast

Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with WUNC’s small but intrepid digital news team.
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